Kathleen Rooney

Photograph by Beth Rooney

About The Author

Kathleen Rooney is the nationally bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, as well as Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey and From Dust to Stardust. She has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from Poetry magazine and the Adam Morgan Literary Citizen Award from the Chicago Review of Books. Kathleen’s criticism can be found in The New York Times, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The Brooklyn Rail, Chicago magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and beyond. She lives in Chicago with her spouse, the writer Martin Seay, and teaches English and creative writing at DePaul University.

Appearances

JUL 13
7:00PM
In Person

Moderator: Caroline Macon Fleischer

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ANDERSON’S BOOKSHOP
123 W Jefferson Ave
Naperville, IL 60540

Books by Kathleen Rooney

Man Overboard!

A Novel

By Kathleen Rooney
"Unexpected and heartwarming." —The New York Times, Summer’s Best Beach Reads

"Funny, sad, playful, and, by the end, simply resonant." —Daniel Kraus, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Whalefall and Angel Down

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